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The UK is not a model for transit on a city per city basis, London is a model. Manchester with its 8 "LRT" lines carries less than a third what the Toronto Streetcars carry (and they don't even carry what Line 1 carries). Sydney is building some streetcar like lines in dense downtown areas, the...

Sort of figured but very hard to tell!

Or (more likely imo) Metrolinx is trying to negotiate a limited service expansion with CP. They obviously want to and PV has mentioned in past townhalls etc that headway is being made. But if it had been this year maybe there was no point in announcing during the pandemic (for obvious reasons -...

How is service working? Seems like all tracks are out?

Truly great railcars, very distinctive in Canada . . . I think with REM coming online in YUL, and OL in YYZ we will likely see more pressure to add PSD's on the main systems. Once people have them I am sure there will immediately be more people pushing for them on the rest of networks. And...

Adding segments to something like a streetcar feels incredibly unlikely, why break apart a decade old semi-permanently configured tram just to add segments which would then be brand new and out of sync with the rest of the tram. If this doesn't happen with Metro trains, it won't happen with even...

Clearly the only org that can / has overarching authority is Metrolinx (they *are* part of the Ontario gov) they probably should be the ones making (and indeed enforcing standards).

I am not sure how I am "needlessly aggressive", I am also not sure how anyone can know how much anyone else knows or does not know - its all in the posts. Transit projects in this city constantly do things they shouldn't to appease various groups - Finch having the inbuilt community centre *as...

I don't know how many people here read Alon Levy but, I think this paragraph from one of his blogs would be of great value to many here: "In that sense, the role of the planner is to say no – and moreover, to say no to charismatic groups representing much-romanticized people. No, dear mother...

The reason construction of transit costs so much in North America and the UK is the Nimbyism and the degree to which we treat transit projects as if they are not just existing to serve a transportation need but, instead they must solve all social and city organization related ills. It's not...

Sheppard is fairly successful given the corridor, I think a lot of people would be surprised how busy trains are even off peak. With all the new development finally filling in around Bessarion even that station will likely be doing better. All this in mind the "TOD" is pretty terrible, its not...

See that video posted above, also doesn't make sense when a lot of services are not running to the terminus Ah yes, this industry best practice is rubbish Again watch the video that was posted, there's a reason so many agencies use a T

This is really not enough and maybe not a good model, we need a region wide policy. Generally no

They are apparently accelerating works on Stouffville and Barrie. To be fair I don't think this is really true. Most of the works to create a functional RER system have started, or are in late planning. Stouffville and Barrie are moving to two tracks with ongoing station upgrades and major...

Wait til you get stuck for 2 minutes between stations spaced 100m apart because someone in their van needed to turn Eglinton is low quality yes, you have to design transit differently when much of your market already has a car. The economics of transit and car use change a lot when people...

VMC also could use it . . .

Well it is unlikely to be as minor as Exhibition, cmon don't compare it to Penn!

Yeah but the differences are a big part of why the costs are different, of course they are similar if you remove them lol

The point is it *isn't* light rail, referring to something as light rail is already generally bad because light rail is not a concrete term, it has many interpretations - but especially on a Toronto forum where "light rail" means a tram or something with tram rolling stock calling a light metro...

There are substantial numbers who work at the airport proper, and there will be significant transfer numbers to the transitway, last mile for a lot of businesses is important but I think it would be solved pretty quickly with better access to the airport.